Spooky spider sugar cookies

I hope everyone is enjoying this spooky time of year with the goblins a ghooling and the spiders a spinning and everyone baking these ridiculously creative desserts.

My dessert started with an ambition of creativity and ended spookily in a spidery mess. I’m no artistic baker, but I tried my best to set the mood and indeed it worked. My cookie artwork is verrrrrry spooky! Wooooooo.

Ok in all seriousness though, these sugar cookies turned out pretty darned good. They are soft and not too sweet. I personally don’t like my cookies too sweet because I can eat more without getting that sugary overload. Of course, the frosting that I added did bump up the sweet factor some. Just don’t go overboard when decorating your delicious designs!

A note on cookie form

A nifty trick I happened to stumble into that creates nearly a perfect looking cookie is to take the back of a one cup dry measuring cup and press it down on top of the cookies until they are squished a little bit. Don’t push them down too much or you might see the edges of your cookie start to crack. If that happens, roll it unto a ball again and start over. Your cookies might stick to the measuring cup and that’s ok. Just carefully peel them off and place on the ungreased cookie sheet.

So with that, I hope everyone has a great Halloween and eats lots of scary treats!